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The 1961 Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire and the making of modern Singapore
No full textBy 1970, Singapore’s urban landscape was dominated by high-rise blocks of planned public housing built by the People’s Action Party government, signifying the establishment of a high modernist nation-state. A decade earlier, the margins of the City had been dominated by kampongs, home to semi-autonomous communities of low-income Chinese families which freely built, and rebuilt, unauthorised wooden houses. This change was not merely one of housing but belied a more fundamental realignment of state-society relations in the 1960s. Relocated in Housing and Development Board flats, urban kampong families were progressively integrated into the social fabric of the emergent nation-state. This study examines the pivotal role of an event, the great Kampong Bukit Ho Swee fire of 1961, in bringing about this transformation. The redevelopment of the fire site in the aftermath of the calamity brought to completion the British colonial regime’s ‘emergency’ programmes of resettling urban kampong dwellers in planned accommodation, in particular, of building emergency public housing on the sites of major fires in the 1950s. The PAP’s far greater political resolve, and the timing of and state of emergency occasioned by the scale of the 1961 disaster, enabled the government to rehouse the Bukit Ho Swee fire victims in emergency housing in record time. This in turn provided the HDB with a strategic platform for clearing other kampongs and for transforming their residents into model citizens of the nation-state. The 1961 fire’s symbolic usefulness extended into the 1980s and beyond, in sanctioning the PAP’s new housing redevelopment schemes. The official account of the inferno has also become politically useful for the government of today for disciplining a new generation of Singaporeans against taking the nation’s progress for granted. Against these exalted claims of the fire’s role in the Singapore Story, this study also examines the degree of actual change and continuity in the social and economic lives of the people of Bukit Ho Swee after the inferno. In some crucial ways, the residents continued to occupy a marginal place in society while pondering, too, over the unresolved question of the cause of the fire. These continuities of everyday life reflect the ambivalence with which the citizenry regarded the high modernist state in contemporary Singapore
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No full textMaster'sMASTER OF SCIENCE IN ADVANCED MATERIALS FOR MICRO- & NANO- SYSTEMSDissertation Supervisors: 1. Au Hing Ho, Principal Engineer, SSMC. 2. Asst Prof Gan Chee Lip, SMA Fellow, NT
Topics in pathology for Hong Kong
No full textpublished_or_final_versionForeword / MacSween, R.N.M. pviiPreface / Ho, Faith C.S. pixIndex p1651 Viral hepatitis in Hong Kong / Wu, Pui-chee p12 Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis and clonorchiasis / Wu, Pui-chee p213 Mortality trends in ischaemic heart disease in Hong Kong / Dickens, Paul p334 Cerebrovascular disease in Hong Kong / Leung, Suet-yi p415 Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and thalassaemia / Chan, Li-chong p536 Systemic lupus erythematosus / Chan, Eric Y.T. p677 Pathology of glomerular diseases in Hong Kong / Chan, Kwok-wah p758 Epidemiology of neoplasia in Hong Kong / Loke, Shee- loong p919 Liver tumours / Ng, Irene O.L. p10110 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma / Nicholls, John M. p11511 Oesophageal tumours / Ma, Lily T. p12312 Malignant lymphomas / Ho, Faith C.S. p12913 Gestational trophoblastic disease / Cheung, Annie N.Y. p14
La Trobe eBureau author kit
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Diari hidup / Ho Wee Chee and Teo Ai Min
No full textThe Academy of Language Studies, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kedah branch is proud to present the first issue of its e-magazine, The Epitome, as our focus to highlight our commitment to contribute to the areas of creative writing. The Epitome aims to provide a platform for writers, educators, academicians, poet, and researchers to share their ideas, findings, knowledge, and experience, particularly on various creative writing genres - personal essays, poetry, short stories, songs, movie scripts, plays, and innovative projects in four different languages ( English, Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, and Arabic)
Effects of Stem Cell Factor on Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 Alpha Accumulation in Human Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and LAD2 Mast Cells
No full textStem cell factor (SCF) is a hematopoietic growth factor that exerts its activity by signalling through the tyrosine kinase receptor known as Kit or CD117. SCF-Kit signalling is crucial for the survival, proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic cells of myeloid lineage. Furthermore, since myeloid leukaemia cells express the Kit receptor, SCF may play an important role in myeloid leukaemia progression too. However, the mechanisms of this pathophysiological effect remain unclear. Recent evidence shows that SCF triggers accumulation of the inducible alpha subunit of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1) in hematopoietic cells--a transcription complex that plays a pivotal role in cellular adaptation to low oxygen availability. However, it is unknown how SCF impacts on HIF-1? accumulation in human myeloid leukaemia and mast cells. Here we show that SCF induces HIF-1? accumulation in THP-1 human myeloid leukaemia cells but not in LAD2 mast cells. We demonstrated that LAD2 cells have a more robust glutathione (GSH)-dependent antioxidative system compared to THP-1 cells and are therefore protected against the actions of ROS generated in an SCF-dependent manner. BSO-induced GSH depletion led to a significant decrease in HIF-1? prolyl hydroxylase (PHD) activity in THP-1 cells and to near attenuation of it in LAD2 cells. In THP-1 cells, SCF-induced HIF-1? accumulation is controlled via ERK, PI3 kinase/PKC-?/mTOR-dependent and to a certain extent by redox-dependent mechanisms. These results demonstrate for the first time an important cross-talk of signalling pathways associated with HIF-1 activation--an important stage of the myeloid leukaemia cell life cycle
sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155231207265 - Supplemental material for Recovery needs and psychosocial rehabilitation trajectory of stroke survivors (PReTS): A qualitative systematic review of systematic reviews
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-cre-10.1177_02692155231207265 for Recovery needs and psychosocial rehabilitation trajectory of stroke survivors (PReTS): A qualitative systematic review of systematic reviews by Muhammad Amin Shaik, Ping Ying Choo, Geraldine Tan-Ho, Jimmy Chee-Keong Lee and Andy Hau Yan Ho in Clinical Rehabilitation</p
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